Alexandra Preece Barlow as Partner in San Diego

Barlow is a member of the Litigation Department and the Class Actions and Mass Torts Group. She litigates complex product liability matters involving medical devices, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, automobiles, and artificial intelligence, with significant experience managing challenging mass tort and class action cases from inception through trial.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Monica A. Rodriguez as Partner in Los Angeles

Rodriguez is a member of the Litigation Department and the Employment + Labor Group. She advises and defends clients across a variety of industries, including retail, restaurant, software and technology, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, and transportation and logistics. Rodriguez is a trusted advisor and regularly counsels clients in all facets of the employment relationship. She also has extensive experience representing clients in class and representative action lawsuits alleging wage-and-hour violations in state and federal court. Rodriguez also defends and advises clients on labor relations issues.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Cooper J. Spinelli as Partner in San Francisco

Spinelli is a member of the Litigation Department and Employment + Labor Groupo. His practice focuses on trade secrets and restrictive covenants, employee mobility and executive disputes, whistleblower claims, and general business litigation. Spinelli has represented clients in both affirmative and defensive trade secret misappropriation and employee mobility cases, including cases involving related IP issues. In addition, Spinelli has represented companies in highly sensitive matters involving involuntary and negotiated departures of chief executive and other senior officers.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Shiri V. Shenhav as Partner in Palo Alto

Shenhav is a member of the Transactions Department and the Mergers + Acquisitions Group. Shenhav maintains a corporate transactional practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions and equity investments in the technology industry for public and private companies. She regularly assists strategic buyers and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including deal structuring and mechanics, stock and asset purchases, mergers, divestitures, and spin-offs. Shenhav also regularly represents companies with respect to their equity investments, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions, as well as general corporate counseling.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Meghan McLean Poon as Partner in Palo Alto

Poon is a member of the Transactions Department and the Patent Strategy + Prosecution Group. As co-head of the firm’s Biotech practice group and member of the firm’s Life Science Steering Committee, she counsels clients on patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio strategy, and IP due diligence in the areas of biotechnology and biologics. She has significant experience in diverse technologies, including antibodies, cell therapies, gene therapies, diagnostics, and gene-edited plants. Dr. Poon has extensive experience addressing complex obviousness-double patenting and subject matter eligibility issues impacting her clients’ patent portfolios and has filed numerous Patent Term Extension applications for her clients’ FDA-approved products.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Andrew L. Perito as Partner in San Francisco

Perito is a member of the Litigation Department and the IP Litigation Group. Perito is an experienced trial lawyer, with a focus on representing clients in patent litigation spanning a variety of technical areas and in related Patent Office proceedings and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Perito has also represented clients in intellectual property disputes involving trade secret, trademark, copyright, and employee mobility issues, including internal investigations, arbitration, and litigation.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Christopher C. McKinnon as Partner in Palo Alto

McKinnon is a member of the Transactions Department and the Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Group. He represents startups, venture capital investors, and private equity firms in corporate finance matters, including startup counseling, investments, M&A, and investment fund transactions. Prior to rejoining MoFo, McKinnon was associate general counsel and legal director at a leading global investment firm, where he oversaw a broad range of U.S. and cross-border transactions.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Rose S. Lee as Partner in Los Angeles

Lee is a member of the Litigation Department and the IP Litigation Group. Her practice focuses on patent, copyright, and trade secret matters. Lee has litigated a wide range of high-technology cases for U.S.- and non-U.S.-based clients in U.S. federal courts and before the ITC. A registered patent attorney, Lee also represents clients in adversarial proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Benjamin T.R. Fox as Partner in San Francisco

Fox is a member of the Transactions Department and the Mergers + Acquisitions Group. His practice focuses on representing startup to late-stage private companies and venture capital and private equity investors, as well as family offices, private foundations, and public charities in early-stage and late-stage financings, mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, joint ventures, and hybrid or “tandem” structuring arrangements between nonprofit and for-profit entities. Fox has extensive experience working with investors and companies in the climate technology and infrastructure and sustainability space. He regularly advises clients on creative legal structures with respect to aggregating and deploying capital to maximize impact and returns.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Krista deBoer as Partner in San Diego

DeBoer is an environmental attorney in the Litigation Department and the Class Actions and Mass Torts Group. She represents clients in environmental and toxic tort litigation and consumer class actions involving hazardous materials exposures and claims of health or environmental benefits and has broad experience in CERCLA and HSAA litigation and cost recovery. DeBoer also defends clients in regulatory enforcement actions and advises on compliance issues regarding hazardous materials management, California Title 20 energy efficiency regulation, California Air Resources Board regulations, and climate disclosure laws. She regularly works with companies to assess and mitigate risk related to green marketing and climate-related claims.

MoFo named 27 lawyers throughout its offices globally, 10 in California.

Anthony (Tony) Weibell as Partner in Palo Alto and San Francisco from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Weibell serves as lead litigation counsel for premier technology companies in diverse areas of complex civil litigation involving consumer class actions, privacy, e-commerce, intellectual property, antitrust, false advertising and contractual disputes. He is an arbitrator, special master, referee and a member of the Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals and has adjudicated hundreds of civil matters by appointment and party stipulation. In recent years, he has represented leading internet and technology companies, such as Google, TikTok (ByteDance) and Roblox Corporation, in consumer class actions that have examined issues of first impression.

Weibell's practice also includes advising companies on compliance with consumer protection, privacy and internet law, such as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Wiretap Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA), and other unfair competition and consumer protection laws.

M. Lance Jasper as Partner in Los Angeles (Century City) from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

As senior counsel in the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for more than a decade, Jasper conducted high-profile investigations and litigation involving public companies, investment advisers, broker-dealers and securities professionals, including an FCPA investigation that resulted in $1.8 billion in SEC remedies--one of the largest ever achieved by the agency. Jasper also advised senior SEC officials on complex securities matters, including violations and remedies in the asset management space.

Prior to serving in the SEC, Jasper practiced in the litigation department at Munger Tolles & Olson. Prior to that, he had federal clerkships in the Southern District of New York and 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Stefani B. Lenett as Senior Counsel in San Diego

Lenett works with a diverse range of clients, including blended families, the LGBTQ community and individuals facing challenging family dynamics across California. She handles estate planning for estates of all sizes. Her work also includes trust administration after the death of a trustee and handling probate court proceedings.

Lenett serves on the San Diego County Superior Court's Probate Bench/Bar Committee and as a court-appointed attorney. A veteran estate and probate law attorney, she was tapped to serve as the reviewing author of the Probate Attorneys of San Diego's PASD Probate Handbook 2023. Lenett is the president-elect of Temple Emanu-El, San Diego.

Marcia Valadez Valente as Partner in San Francisco

Valadez Valente is a trial attorney with a broad range of experience representing companies, individuals, and public entities in state and federal courts. Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation with an emphasis on financial and commercial cases, and employment disputes. She also represents clients in matters brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. Valadez Valente is a member of the State Bars of California and New York and the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Federal Bar Association, and the Women's White Collar Defense Association. She maintains an active pro bono practice and is dedicated to serving her community. She serves on the executive board of the Federal Bar Association, Northern District of California Chapter, and is a member and co-chair of the Stanford Latino Alumni Association, Northern California Chapter.

Ashley Weinstein-Carnes as Partner in San Francisco

Weinstein-Carnes is a land use attorney focusing on complex entitlement and permitting for development projects throughout the Bay Area. Ashley's practice includes a wide range of product types and local jurisdictions. She has successfully obtained land use approvals for projects including mixed-use and multifamily residential developments, corporate R&D and office campuses, an NBA stadium, hospitals and medical facilities, and industrial facilities. She has significant experience utilizing California's evolving housing laws with a focused practice on streamlining strategies for residential and mixed-use residential projects; she regularly speaks and writes on changes in the regulatory landscape impacting housing production in California.

In addition to her law practice, Weinstein-Carnes is a faculty lecturer at the University of California, Haas School of Business, where she teaches an interdisciplinary graduate course to business, law and planning students on land development and investment issues. She is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, serving on the Leadership Team of the Small Scale Development National Product Council and the Steering Committee of the San Francisco District Council Young Leaders Group, and a member and former Vice-President of the Berkeley Real Estate Alumni Association.

Frank Busch as Partner in San Francisco from Wagstaffe, von Loewenfeldt, Busch & Radwick LLP.

Busch is an experienced litigator who has represented parties of every size in complex trial and appellate matters. He has experience with all phases of discovery, motion practice, mediation, arbitration, trial, and appeal, including a successful oral argument before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Busch also has significant experience in probate litigation, having represented both beneficiaries and fiduciaries in many litigated matters, including will contests, trust contests, accounting actions, attorney-in-fact litigation, and other related matters.

Danielle Drossel as Partner in San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Barbara

Drossel's practice concentrates on advancing peaceful workplaces, where organizations and employees can thrive. She is called upon by public and private entities for thorough investigations into claims of misconduct and to provide employee training on a wide range of workplace topics, including anti-bias, discrimination, harassment, equity and inclusion, and conflict-resolution. In addition to delivering high-quality neutral services to public and private entities across the state, she leverages her deep expertise to educate business and legal industry audiences on issues impacting workplace dynamics, such as managing multigenerational workforces, microaggressions, and situations that might involve competing legal standards.

She is an Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI) member with Certificate Holder (AWI-CH) distinction and a board member at Congregation B'nai B'rith.

Brent C. Lehman as Partner in Los Angeles

Lehman represents clients in the entertainment industry as well as in emerging technology markets. He brings more than 10 years of experience working with clients in the music, film, technology, and video game industries. He advises on intellectual property disputes, breach of contract, compensation issues, breach of fiduciary duty, white-collar defense, and fraud.

Before joining MWM in 2022, Lehman worked as a litigator at several boutique law firms in the greater Los Angeles region.

Guinevere Jobson as General Counsel-in-Residence and Chief Operating Officer in San Francisco

Jobson has more than 16 years of U.S. and global experience, most recently as general counsel of AI-powered digital advertising technology company Quantcast where she led all legal functions including privacy compliance and product counseling, intellectual property, regulatory affairs, disputes, commercial transactions, international expansion, and legal operations. She was also part of the company's executive leadership team, working across business units to set and execute high level strategic objectives.

Prior to her time at Quantcast, was an intellectual property and commercial litigator representing clients across technology, Internet, and digital media/entertainment sectors at Fenwick & West LLP. She spent a year as visiting attorney in the intellectual property department of Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman) in Paris, where she advised on multi-jurisdiction, cross-border patent litigation and video game copyright enforcement programs.

Shruti Bhutani Arora as Partner in San Francisco

Arora advises clients on privacy matters, including compliance with U.S. and global privacy laws and regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended from time to time, and the General Data Protection Regulation. She also helps clients prepare and negotiate complex technology contracts. She is one of 13 lawyers BakerHostetler promoted to partner across the nation.

Pamela S. Aaron as Partner in Orange County

Aaron counsels and defends employers, insurers, and third-party administrators in workers' compensation matters throughout California. She focuses a significant portion of her practice on handling workers' compensation matters for major league sports organizations.

Nationally, Goldberg Segalla elevated 22 attorneys to partner, including two in Orange County, and 5 to special counsel.

Pardis Saleki as Partner in Orange County

Saleki focuses her practice on counseling and defending employers, insurers, and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation matters. As a Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation law, Pardis manages every stage of the claims process from inception through resolution, including developing legal strategy for discovery, conferences, and trials; analyzing complex medical records and diagnostics; managing pleadings, motions, and briefs; as well as settlement negotiation, hearings, and appeals.

Nationally, Goldberg Segalla elevated 22 attorneys to partner, including two in Orange County, and 5 to special counsel.

Rachel Jones as Partner in San Francisco

Jones is a land use and natural resources attorney with a focus on land development and renewable energy projects. She advises clients at all stages of project development on public and private land. She guides clients through the local, state, and federal permitting and entitlement process, provides environmental due diligence for project finance transactions, and counsels clients with ongoing land use and natural resource compliance needs. Jones’ areas of expertise include environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, land use entitlements under California's Planning and Zoning Law, project approvals under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, compliance with federal and state species protection laws, and wetlands and waters regulation under state and federal law. She also has deep expertise with water supply planning, water conservation, water recycling, and the development of large water infrastructure projects.

Tyler Dockins as Partner in Orange County

Dockins is a construction attorney primarily representing owners and contractors. He has negotiated and drafted billions of dollars in construction and design agreements, as well as consultant and land development contracts for multifamily, condominium, hotel, industrial, casino, retail, office, data center, luxury residential, medical and research facilities, public school and other public facilities, storage, and senior and assisted living facilities.

Veena Beglinger as Partner in San Francisco

Beglinger is a real estate and land use attorney representing clients in all aspects of land development and real estate transactions and has a particular expertise in the renewable energy sector and water rights. She also advises clients on construction, operational, and property management related issues. One focus of her practice is site assembly, title and survey review, infrastructure development (sewer, water, etc.), and subdivision map act issues. Beglinger also has extensive experience advising both developers and lenders on a broad range of renewable energy projects.

Lindsay Barstow as Counsel in Los Angeles

Barstow is a real estate attorney who provides advice and counsel to Fortune 100 companies, including those in the industrial real estate, construction materials manufacturing and retail leasing industries. Barstow's experience with real estate transactions includes acquisitions/dispositions, due diligence reviews, leases, licenses, real estate financings, broker agreements and other day-to-day agreements affecting the ownership and leasing of real property. She also manages pre-litigation real estate disputes and defaults.

Saul Ewing elected nine attorneys to the firm's partnership and promoted 5 attorneys to counsel across the nation.

Paul F. Schmeltzer as Parter in Los Angeles

Schmeltzer counsels healthcare clients on regulatory matters including Federal and State pharmacy law, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, Stark law, State and Federal Anti-Kickback Statutes, HIPAA, and EMTALA.

He is one of 12 attorneys Clark Hill promoted to partner nationally, including three in Los Angeles.

Maryam Danishwar as Partner in Los Angeles

Danishwar represents clients in litigation and transactional matters related to interstate trucking and transportation accidents, employment disputes, claims against healthcare facilities, commercial landlord tenant disputes, subrogation claims, and other contractual disputes.

She is one of 12 attorneys Clark Hill promoted to partner nationally, including three in Los Angeles.

Marina Manoukian as Partner in Los Angeles

Manoukian focuses on civil litigation including business, real estate, and construction litigation, as well as family law litigation.

She is one of 12 attorneys Clark Hill promoted to partner nationally, including three in Los Angeles.

Douglas Hatherley as Founder in Irvine

Hatherley's practice is focused on the issues of family law litigation, including child custody and visitation, spousal support, child support, domestic violence, paternity, and division of assets. He graduated from Loyola Law School. Hatherley has practiced family law exclusively since being admitted to the bar and has worked at prominent family law firms in Orange County, the Inland Empire, and Los Angeles. He is a former partner of Stegmeier, Gelbart, Schwartz & Benavente, LLP.

Hatherley is a member of the executive committee board for the Orange County Bar Association, Family Law Section.

William V. Gallo as Neutral in San Diego from U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Gallo was appointed in 2009 to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California where he presided over a variety of civil and criminal cases in his more than 14 years on the bench, which included a two-year tenure as the court's presiding magistrate judge (2020-2022). In this role, he heard more than 2,500 settlement discussions, covering areas including employment law issues, such as discrimination, wrongful termination and wage and hour disputes; intellectual property; Lemon Law; and personal injury and wrongful death. Prior to his appointment, Gallo served as a prosecutor at the state and federal levels for a combined 23 years, including 18 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in San Diego. As a criminal trial attorney, he tried approximately 200 jury and bench trials.

Charlotte Wen as Partner in Los Angeles

Wen is an experienced trial lawyer focused on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. She has been a core member of trial teams that obtained some of the firm's highest profile wins, helping secure nine- and 10-figure jury awards that total over $3.5 billion. She also has an active appellate and pro bono practice.

Stephen Payne as Partner in Newport Beach

Payne is an experienced trial lawyer focused on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. Payne's experience includes five recent federal jury trials that resulted in over $800 million in verdicts for clients. He also litigates matters on appeal and has challenged and defended district court and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rulings in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Emily Cunningham as Partner in San Francisco

Cunningham defends manufacturers, suppliers, premises owners, and high-profile clients in complex litigation involving product liability, mass torts, catastrophic injuries, commercial disputes, and sensitive issues. She earned recognition for her skills in commercial litigation in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Cunningham graduated from California Western School of Law. She was a judicial extern for Judge Richard D. Huffman at the California Court of Appeal and a law clerk with the California Attorney General's office.

Andrew J. Bedigian as Partner in Los Angeles

Bedigian has been with Larson since 2016. His practice focuses on complex civil litigation, commercial disputes, and white collar criminal defense. His experience includes defending oil and gas companies and financial institutions against federal and state investigations.

Catherine S. Owens as Partner in Los Angeles

Owens joined Larson in 2021, and her practice focuses on complex commercial and patent litigation and white collar defense. She has represented clients in a variety of industries, including social media, technology, and pharmaceutical companies.

Juliette Tran as Counsel in Los Angeles

Tran joined the firm in 2023. She focuses her practice on complex civil litigation, labor and employment disputes, and real estate litigation.

Benjamin E. Strauss as Counsel in Los Angeles

Strauss' practice includes complex business litigation, class actions, and appeals involving intellectual property, technology, entertainment, unfair competition, and real estate issues. He has comprehensive experience in all phases of civil litigation in federal and California state courts. Strauss graduated from UCLA School of Law and served as a law clerk to Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

David L. McGrath as Counsel in Orange County

McGrath's practice focuses on an extensive variety of regulatory and transactional matters involving hazardous waste, air quality and climate change, energy projects, land use and development, water quality, and related government compliance issues. He graduated from UCLA School of Law.

Che Salinas as Partner in Sacramento

Salinas advises clients on complex political matters in addition to legal, legislative and fiscal issues across numerous policy areas, including health care, pharmaceutical manufacturing, transportation, public utilities, taxation and energy policy. In this capacity, he appears before state agencies, regulatory bodies and the California Legislature to advance client objectives. He also advises and collaborates with an array of business industries and trade associations in those efforts. Salinas graduated from UC Davis School of Law.

Stephanie Roeser as Partner in Los Angeles

Roeser represents clients in a wide variety of employment and commercial litigation matters, including litigation defense of wage-and-hour class actions as well as single-plaintiff discrimination and retaliation matters. She also represents employers before state and federal administrative agencies and advises employers on employment issues and best practices. Roeser graduated from UC Law San Francisco.

John Meller as Partner in Los Angeles

Meller's practice focuses on music transactions, including negotiating and drafting agreements in the music industry. An advocacy committee member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, he campaigns for the rights of music creators, organizing advocacy and leading meetings with members of Congress for various grassroots events. Meller graduated from UCLA School of Law.

Philip E. McDermott as Partner in Los Angeles

McDermott started his career practicing civil litigation defense in a wide range of areas that included hospitality, business solutions, construction, general liability, product liability, professional liability, and transportation. Philip now focuses on performing general counsel and transactional work for commercial clients primarily in the retail, hospitality, shipping, construction and legal industries. Philip draws upon his extensive experience in litigation to represent and advocate for his clients at all stages with a focus on prevention, compliance, risk mitigation, and productivity.

Justin Romig as Partner in Los Angeles from Cox, Wootton, Lerner, Griffin & Hansen LLP.

Romig represents businesses and individuals in business, complex commercial, banking, real estate, construction, probate, and employment litigation in state and federal courts, as well as arbitration and mediation. He also serves as defense counsel in high-exposure, complex commercial litigation matters.

Melvin F. Marcia as Partner in Sacramento

Marcia is a member of the firm's Transportation Law, General Liability, Product Liability and Fire Litigation Practice Groups. His practice focuses on litigation of high value cases, ranging from catastrophic injury, wrongful death, premises liability, business disputes, product liability, uninsured/underinsured arbitrations and subrogation matters.

Gary L. LaHendro as Partner in Los Angeles

LaHendro focuses his practice on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. Gary's clients include carriers within the United States and London Markets for whom he has provided coverage advice on various lines of coverage, including commercial general liability, excess, errors and omissions, auto, and representations and warranties. Gary also monitors the defense of insureds with respect to third-party lawsuits. In addition to coverage work, Gary has over 20 years of litigation experience as lead defense counsel on cases involving soil and groundwater contamination, professional liability, construction defect and personal injury cases. He is also a skilled appellate attorney and Certified Mediator.

Ofelia M. Olmedo as Associate in San Diego from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.

Olmedo has defended skilled nursing facilities and administrators in a variety of elder abuse claims and claims for vicarious liability against affiliated corporate entities. She has also represented hospital medical staff in judicial review hearings and assisted in their corrective action and peer review processes.

Roxanna Palizi as Associate in San Diego from law student.

Palizi is a family law attorney who gained experience earlier in her career as both an intern and post-bar law clerk in the firm's Family Law Practice Group prior to becoming a lawyer. Her experience also includes drafting motions for a variety of causes of action and making court appearances on behalf of clients when she served as a certified law clerk at a boutique family law firm.

Sahar Malek as Partner in Los Angeles from Sahar Malek Law, APC.

Malek is a litigation and trial attorney who founded a boutique law firm in Beverly Hills. She represents clients in personal injury and lemon law cases. She is on the board of directors of the Consumer Attorneys of California and the Iranian American Lawyers Association and is an active member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, the American Association for Justice, and various other attorney associations.

Haley A. Murphy as Associate in San Diego from Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolin PC.

Murphy represents employers in a diverse range of employment litigation matters and counsels clients on a variety of employment-related issues. Her experience includes representing employers in court, arbitration, and mediation.

Zoheb Noorani as Partner in Los Angeles

Noorani has defended insurance companies in all stages of coverage actions—from pre-litigation counseling to appeals. Along with the day-to-day management of cases, he has been the principal drafter of several case-winning summary judgment motions.

Zach Greenberg as Partner in Century City

Greenberg counsels private and public company clients across a wide array of industries on acquisitions and dispositions, capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters, and SEC compliance and disclosure requirements.

Lauren Kaplan as Partner in Los Angeles

Kaplan works with clients facing inquiries and enforcement actions by state attorneys general as well as complex civil litigation. She has represented companies and individuals at trial and appeal in both state and federal courts and in investigations by state and federal agencies. Lauren is also an active member of O’Melveny’s pro bono practice.

Adam Levine as Partner in Los Angeles

Levine is a highly skilled and experienced commercial litigator and trial lawyer specializing in healthcare litigation. Levine handles complex healthcare litigation matters, including payor-provider disputes, government enforcement actions, and whistleblower lawsuits under the False Claims Act. He also holds other complex commercial litigation matters relating to product liability, false advertising, all manner of breaches of contract, express and implied warranty, fiduciary duty, violations of unfair competition and consumer protection statutes, and civil fraud.

Russell McGlothlin as Partner in Century City

McGlothlin is an experienced water resources attorney who has spent decades advising clients on water use and management matters in California and the western United States. His expertise includes compliance with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), water rights permitting and compliance, water transfer agreements, groundwater banking, water quality, regulated water utilities, mutual water companies, and reclamation issues. He represents private companies, large agricultural producers and investors, municipalities, special districts, and landowners with transactional negotiations, litigation, and administrative agency proceedings.

Jason Zarrow as Partner in Los Angeles

Zarrow’s practice is devoted to creating and executing legal strategies for bet-the-company litigation. He advises clients on compliance options and litigation risks, with an eye toward building legal and factual arguments if litigation ensues. Once litigation begins, he coordinates legal and appellate strategy, starting with dispositive motions before the trial court. As the case progresses, Jason oversees the development of key points in the factual record, working with trial teams to ensure that his client’s legal arguments have the best factual framing at summary judgment, class certification, trial, and on appeal. And should the case proceed to trial, Jason has extensive experience as on-the-ground appellate counsel, presenting forceful arguments for judgment, crafting jury instructions, and ensuring all appellate points are preserved.